Retiring Assemblywoman Joan Quigley didn’t mince words at a political roundtable in Jersey City this morning, where she joked that Gov. Chris Christie is a “bully.”

Quigley, who announced her retirement in April after representing the 32nd District for 18 years, said her agenda for her last two months in the Assembly will likely not include much on Christie’s “to-do list.”

“The Legislature does not do what the governor tells it to do,” she said at the event, presented by the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce. “We work by developing a consensus.”

Quigley’s decision to leave the Legislature came shortly after statewide redistricting. Her Jersey City home is not in the redrawn 32nd District, which will include East Newark, Edgewater, Fairview, Guttenberg, Harrison, Kearny, North Bergen, Secaucus and West New York.

The roundtable included state Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham, Assemblymen Charles Mainor and Jason O’Donnell and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, all Democrats. Sponsored by the Guarini Institute for Government and Leadership at St. Peter’s College, Fidelity Investments and the Hudson County Workforce Investment Board, the hour-long discussion focused on the state’s economy and bleak employment outlook.

Quigley wasn’t the only roundtable participant to make a jab at Christie. Cunningham said she was astonished to hear Christie “say the word ‘urban’” recently, while O’Donnell said that cuts Christie has made to state programs for the disabled are “nothing short of criminal.”

But it was Quigley who went on more of a prolonged rant against the Republican governor.

“The governor has the appropriately named ‘bully pulpit,’” she said.

She added: “He may have some very good ideas, and we agree on some of them, but we’re not his kids, and we don’t do as we’re told.”